ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Landfast

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Landfast is an adjective meaning Connected or anchored to the land.

Meaning

Connected or anchored to the land.

Example Sentences

landfast sea ice
There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anchorable, landable, affixed, fast, shorelined, treebound.

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